I want to briefly talk about my impressions of the game for the druid:
weakest damage
slowest attack speed
no good synergy of skills
useless passive summoning abilities (raven is just terrible, wolves are more or less, the vine is disgusting)
Legendaries are extremely weak and give insignificant bonuses
weak defensive abilities
extremely small variety of builds
from the good - beautiful animation of the bear and that’s all.
the class looks frankly weak compared to the rest of the classes.
I really hope the class is REDESIGNED before the release of the game, otherwise there will be only 4 classes in Diablo IV, since the druid is COMPLETELY unplayable at the moment
Only got my Druid to 16 when I learnt they can’t pick up their Class Techniques since we can’t go to the area in the Beta… so bit early to claim so.
Nonetheless I had legendaries that raised my Basic attacks with each companion out, another that made the 10s CD Boulder into a spammable core ability, another that made land slid hit 3 times twice with perk which annihilates even a Champion in a single cast.
Was originally leaning towards the Druid come release, might still do so. I’m not one that jumps straight for the OP classes right off the bat [Rogue and Sorc].
Druid was my first choice when starting this beta. Hated it. By lvl 11 I rerolled a sorc…
Earlier today I decided to give it one more go, and I gotta admit my opinion is changing quite a bit.
For personal enjoyment, lvl 1-10 I just did on world tier 1, then switched to 2 around lvl 11.
That ‘gambling’ guy who you can use those purple things on for random equipment, I got two legendary items that made my build a beast.
+1 to wolf companion so have 3, werewolf form keeps my health up, a legendary axe that sprouts vines occasionally and armor that gave me the Earthen bulwork skill for more armor.
While more gear dependent then my sorc, I’ve done a 180 on Druid. Still could be improved on early on tho.
It’s not unplayable, but you’re paying at a disadvantage for sure. Most of the people defending it are doing so because they got a few legendry drops that help, but they still lag behind other classes in general. I hope they get some major buffs before the game drops.
I wouldn’t call it unplayable, it’s just not fun to play. Building a werebear druid and taking only werebear skills will make you a little more tanky than other builds but aside from the one guaranteed overpower every 10 seconds when you are healthy, you get no real dmg in that build. The only thing you could build on that would be thorn bear druid i guess? But if that is much fun… idk.
Even if you would get dmg buffs on that build, the game design as a whole is just not fun. Try fighting neyrelles mother with werebear druid… just disgusting design for the whole fight. Mobs run away to the sides where the map is going to kill you if you stand there, spinning things with stupid hitboxes making you vulnerable and the mobs being connected with a beam that will inflict a vulnerable debuff on you is just very annoying too when you get only a few attack chances before the mob is gone again. All of that is absolutely no problem for any ranged dmg.
Landslide druid disagrees hard with you. 1 single legendary item is all it needs to shine right at level 10 and carries you all the way till the most difficult contents of this beta
Agree that werewolf druid kinda sucks. So does werebear.
the bad part about druid so far is that you can’t go all werewolf, or all earth skills, maybe in end game you can do a theme druid build…but for now you have to pick the best in slot skills and is heavy gear dependant like the barbarian…you have to i had troubles at the beginning because i was getting legos for skills i didnt use, a lot of earthen bulwark stuff (some of them doesnt even work?) but it helps a lot when you get dps skills legos
also i think devs should check on companions which are terrible
Bad synergy? Than u didnt try earth build with landslide. I had no problems during lvling. Especially when u get till wrath part. So sweet passives there.
On 25 with legendaries boss dies in 11-14 seconds using pet build.
Another person who can’t think how to play the game.
The lego drop chance is increased in beta (tripled i believe). Now play the class without any lego. How good it is compared to sorc or necro. You think its good class design when to function it needs legendaries?
I leveled up without legendaries. Just yellow gear. Using only earth spells. Normal mobs die fast. On bosses. Ye, it takes some time.
On lvl 25 every1 got legendaries. So every1 show builds with legendaries. I compare it with legendaries too.
My legendary druid kills the boss on lvl 25 - 13 seconds
My sorc ice blades legendary kills the boss - 14-15 seconds.
This game is about ENDGAME, not leveling. Druid even got no class-specific skills available yet. But others do! One of the reasons why sorc is so powerful, cause she got lvl 15 enhancements and can explode in AoE using hydra and in enhancement slot fireball or spam ice blades to kill bosses. Now take it off - how good sorc ll be?
even in this Ziqo lightning build (/watch?v=jq5bS4dw3gI [cant post more than 2 links]). yes looks insane! he really 2 shotted the boss. but take of the fireball from the enhancement slot how good is gonna be trash clear?
I agree it feels like the overall “worst” of the bunch. I will say though that I played full werewolf build from level 1 to 25, and after farming for legendaries at 25 I ended up with a build that was really quite powerful, melting normal elites within a couple of seconds and easily killing any boss without ever being in danger of dying.
This was, however, with my character fully decked out entirely in a mix of legendaries and imprinted legendaries that all specifically supported the werewolf. At that point, it felt really good to play and I enjoyed it a lot. But getting there was very, very slow and painful.
I can imagine Druid being far from terrible in late game once you get your build fully online. But it might still fall behind every other class since they will also become equally powerful once they get their builds and legendaries maxed out.
TL; DR: Druid is slow and weak to level and seems to be incredibly gear dependent to a degree that no other class in the beta was. At level 25 and fully geared, my werewolf druid was very powerful and fun to play, but it took 3x as much time and hard work to get there compared to other classes.
Claw (+26% attack speed, +68% damage)
Shred (rank 7, 42% damage as lightning on crit, with ~25% crit chance)
Blood Howl (+5% crit and affects allies)
Rabies (rank 8)
Wolf Companion (x3 with 200% active damage, they hit REALLY hard)
Grizzly Rage (Dire Werewolf form legendary)
Normal elites died in 1-2 seconds, bosses took maybe 15-20 secs on average
Even with all of this though, the spirit regen felt awful and was a constant annoyance.
disagree fully with werebear being garbage. I am having a blast at lvl 20 with only 2 legendaries - one that gives me a barrier when i fight elite monsters for first time every 30 seconds and one that makes pulverize do 200+% damage and cast in front of you like D2 Shockwave - absolutely loving it
Would You be playing pulverize if not for the legos? What they have done with legos is that they force You to play based on what lego You got. This is bad design! The class is badly designed. Why every druid skill got cooldown while sorc or necro best skills does not?
i feel the key thing people are missing here is that the game isn’t meant for lvl 25. sure sorc and necro are just straight broken for leveling in the beta, but whos to say at higher levels this evens out or is outright beaten by barb and druid due to scaling and itemization. who knows, i know i don’t. while druid my be on the weaker side leveling are people really just want to speed run this game?. thats what it seems like. personally i i am not sure what i will play on launch. might go druid, i dont want to play necro, i got real llucky and my first lego was the bloodmist one and it ruined the necro. just stupid crazy immortal and bucket loads of damage. we will see in june and hopefully when we can surpass lvl 25 things will get better.
I liked the Druid. All i have a issue is with all them cooldowns,waiting on them cooldowns.thats what kills the fun…Meele Combat on the other hand is a bit rough to beginn with but my barb recked after a few upgrades and skill progress…
